A' ways to go!

I remember the night we brought Gideon home. It was a Monday. The entire time we were in the hospital, to get through Noah and I would talk about what we'd do once we were home. One of our favorite "meals" is the carpet picnic. Started with my dad and has now morphed into this cherished tradition Noah and I have. The core food group for the carpet picnic is the cheese-chip-tomato-onion combo (thanks dad!) and through the years we've added various meats, cheeses, crackers, shrimp, whatever basically sounds good to us at the time. Anyway, Noah and I woulds sit in the NICU plan out our first meal as a family of 3 once Gideon was sprung. Thinking and planning that silly little meal got us through some dark nights. I think just thinking that eventually our baby wouldn't be hooked to monitors was just what we needed to deal with it all. True to form, the day we were released we high-tailed it to Kroger for picnic fixin's. I remember when we came home, we put Gideon into his bouncy seat. He swam in it! His legs couldn't get through the holes without the straps swallowing his entire body. We settled for sitting him in a nest of pillows that night and just laughed. At 5 pounds, we thought he was huge. Well, we've recently introduced solids into the young master's diet. Noah says it's one step towards steak. So now that he's getting REALLY big, a whopping 14.5 pounds, we decided to assemble his high chair since his bouncy seat is now getting too small to support our strapping young lad. My parents got us this convertible high chair for Christmas, one that is supposed to grow with your baby. Well, I think we might have a way to go here. Check out the pic and see for yourself. Just when I think he's getting sooo big and growing too fast, reality sets in and I realize I have quite a good long while before my baby is a big boy! Whew!